Sakurako Hino Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 No seriously. I was hopping around the OpNet, and came across a Nova Cosplayer site, and I swear to god, I saw someone dressed like me, and using my name.Said it was some sort of tribute or something...Bah...I'm gone for a short time on some wild goose chase and I'm lamented like I'm dead or something. Kiddo, I'm alive and well, and pink doesn't suit you. Thanks for keeping the fires lit, but I'm back.I'm not one to get mad though. ^.^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 I swear to God, it wasn't me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 Probably more than one. There just ain't no accounting for taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 What the hell is a cosplayer?Those the baseline geeks? Used to get all hard over guys with pointy ears and now they dress up like us? Jeez. How goddamn sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 They're the trekkies of the nova age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixen Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Ahhhhhh.Her.Yes, Endeav, I think I met who you're talking about.She's a lot less crazy in person, if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Hey... Don't knock it. I'm an otaku too you know. >.< And trekkies?... well... erm... I guess we fanboys and girls don't have lives. -.-Vix, how do you know her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Lemmy is just jelous, because only the fat ones liek to dress up like him...So he takes out her anger on others -.^As for for these people, wile i do not agree with wha they do, and never do the same thing.I am glad that they can some how find a small release of the pian that fills most of life.Wile as i said the methode is not one i would use, the facst are theyc ould be doing far wrose things.Anyways, if e-chan saw the poster I have of her, she would blush.^,-` Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 It's... not the one race queen costume I had when Hinocorp backed a race team a few years back now, was it. I always thout the blue sailor fuku I was wearing was a little... cheesecake. >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 I met Lemmie. He don't wear a costume. Posters and costumes... how do you all keep a straight face when you look in the mirror?Why do you care about this shit anyway? Somebody wanting a piece of your life don't exactly sound thrilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixen Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Sakurako 'Endeavor' Hino:Vix, how do you know her?Long story. But basically: Mitch, a former co-worker and off-and-on friend of mine, took me to the local Club Quantum, 'where EVERYTHING is super!' I dunno if you've ever seen these clubs, but basically they're like a cross between a rave, a church, and a costume ball. I wound up in the rather surreal situation of pretending I was pretending to be a nova.I met this girl in the bathroom when I went to take my damn shoulder pads off. She'd gotten in an argument with her boyfriend, and I swear, Endeavor: for a moment I thought it was you. And when it turned out not to be you, I wanted to get angry... I wanted to scream at her for dressing up like you when I had no idea where you were or if you were still alive.But I couldn't bring myself to do it, because when it came right down to it, life's difficult as hell even at the best of times and we all cope in our own ways.It's a nice enough club. I had a wild hair and decided to get up on stage and sing a bit... which I'm still not sure was the smartest decision I ever made in my life, but oh well. The worst thing that could happen is that they start dressing up like me, and anyone who wants to TRY that is going to get a laugh out of me, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Cody:I met Lemmie. He don't wear a costume. Posters and costumes... how do you all keep a straight face when you look in the mirror?Why do you care about this shit anyway? Somebody wanting a piece of your life don't exactly sound thrilling.With me, it's a morbid facination. And, in a way, it's sort of a comedy. I pretty much feeding off of a subculture that feeds off of me.Then again, my thought process about this is too complex. Only a brainiac would understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Vixen:Poor kid. I understand what she's going through. At least, the unhealthy Nova obsession part.But what I don't get is why Humans want to be like Novas SO badly. Being a Nova isn't all that it's cracked up to be. >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Ain't all it's cracked up to be? Oh really? You get handed a gift like this and you still gotta bitch?Damn.Yeah, it don't automatically make your life peachy keen. But unless you're one of those poor bastards who God decided to fuck with personally and turn into something that has trouble existing then you ain't got no reason to complain. You're tougher and are gonna live longer (unless you're acting like one of those dips who think they gotta act like a superhero) than those sad fucks in the club Vixen's talking about. What about being a nova isn't totally great for you? Fame? Nah, that's a choice you made. You don't have to be famous. You might have to be known since the baselines are obsessed with us, but that's different. You have an automatic opportunity to make more money, be heard more, and have more influence than any baseline, just because you're a nova. The choices you made not so hot? That isn't the nodes fault, you just screwed up and everyone, baseline and nova does that. Yeah, people expect a load from you, but that's other people. Other people can want whatever the hell they want, that don't mean you gotta let what they want dictate what you do when you roll out of bed in the morning.Yeah, I called these dudes geeks and yeah, it creeps me out that they dress up like us, that they pretend to be like us. What is so bad about them that they gotta deny their lives? I checked out a few sites last night and you know what? For the most part these dipshits are better looking and more fit than any twenty other baselines on the street. They work out like a fucking mad-dog and can't even let themselves be happy that they are the ones who look white hot? No, they gotta pretend to be Captain Wonderific who looks so hot.Before I erupted I still had acne, my hair never looked good no matter what kind of shampoo or anything I used. Couldn't build muscle or gain an ounce of weight no matter what I did. Always looked skinny and soft. I had to work my ass off and practice like a demon to get good enough to front for Stormgod. Every day was tough. But my life was mine and every victory was mine. Why the hell pretend to be someone else? So that I don't even get to keep my own successes? Bullshit.Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Sandy, fuck you. Glad to see you stopped pretending to be some computer. So instead of being a nutball you just wanna bust my balls? Eat me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Lemmy, there is a word I love , that should look lup. That word is "joke".So grow up.As for what is bad about their lives that they have to dress up like someone else..Well, I do not know.I could guess at few things but i couldn't tell you for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 *sigh*I've forgotten how this place can be.Sounds like some people I had known over my absence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Quote:Lemmy Chillmeister:...it don't automatically make your life peachy keen. But unless you're one of those poor bastards who God decided to fuck with personally and turn into something that has trouble existing then you ain't got no reason to complain.Well put. I've said it before but, while these aren't the powers I would have chosen, they are a vast improvement over my baseline life. Life is good.And I'll add to that. Recently I found that my life wasn't what I wanted it to be, so I changed it. We are novas and we darn well have lots of options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 *shrugs shoulders*can't disagree there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixen Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Hey, my complaints over novahood are few and far between. No wheelchair? No voice synthesizer? Able to enter buildings that don't have ramps? Able to use whatever bathroom I want even if the stall's not wide enough? Oh, and the telepathy and the flying and that stuff is nice too, of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 No complaints here. Being nova is chocolate cake and strawberry filling. Its knowing the universe smiles on you just for being you. It's finding out the yellow brick road of life is made out of gold and the flying monkeys are handing out samples. It's knowing a storm god by his first name and having him owe you rain for the crops.Its good. Real good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Vixen, and walking through walls ... or planes can be fun too.Two things to remember:Always attune your clothing if you can.Remember that everything in an airport is recorded with both visual and audio. Do you want the record of your latest venture?Sorry, but the originals had an accidental overheat and were damaged beyond repair.I figured you wouldn't want it up on some of the darker 'fansites' that are out there.No, I don't have an eye out for you. I do watch out for security alerts at major public centers and whenever a plane pops the "911". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vixen Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 You're a prince, Jager. I figured my invisibility would take care of anything that happened inside the airport, but I guess not. I'll have to work on that.And I would have attuned my clothing, if I was thinking straight at the time. I just get jumpy when people scream at me on a plane, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 28, 2003 Author Share Posted May 28, 2003 Why you think whenever I want to fly faster than my own node, I charter a flight?Simply put, I hate airports, so... boring.But, for all things, I'm all for having my abilities. Wouldn't trade 'em in. I just say it's not all cracked up to be is because WE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING. Yeah, when novas team up, they're amazing. But let me tell you this, this isn't a world that most baselines could try to understand. Novas have problems too. Not to mention that irritating taint problem.But, live right and not go about trying to change reality, you probably won't become a rampaging inhuman monster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 I'm starting to see why some know the trick of shutting off their node. Don't know the trick myself and can't say I feel the same. But I see see what it says about them that can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 28, 2003 Author Share Posted May 28, 2003 My only problem when I switch off... Is that I revert back to what I looked like before my eruption. Namely a 16 year old japanese girl. Heh. Fancy that. My "active" mode is much more mature looking. Although, I think the young "off" form is a representation of never really growing up.Quite frankly, I only turn off the juice when either A: I have to lay low, B: I want to cool off after a long solo flying session, or C: To give my brain a rest.Sometimes on that last one, I get scared I'm overclocking my synapses. For you non computer geeks that is an oldschool term for making a processor go faster than it's designed. It gets faster performance, but risks frying the processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Cody, learn to hide. It isn't that hard and well worth the effort.After all, if you can't hide, you are limiting your actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Sandy Davis:Lemmy, there is a word I love , that should look lup. That word is "joke".So grow up.This coming from the chick who freaks the fuck out if you get her name wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Jager:Cody, learn to hide. It isn't that hard and well worth the effort.After all, if you can't hide, you are limiting your actions.Jeezus man! What is wrong with you!?"Learn to hide?"Why?Is he some spy? Is he some superguy with a cape that's gotta keep his girlfriend from figuring out he's SuperDude? Is he some paranoid freak convinced the world is out to get him?Or is that you? I wonder sometimes. Shit you talk about makes me think you're expecting a knife in the ribs any minute.Calm down. Relax. Have a frigging life for a second. Not some amped up adventure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Hey, Lemmy. Have a run in with the law recently?Think about what would have happened if you had lost your temper ... even for a second. You are a decent, normal nova (if there is such a thing). If you thought Utopia was tough, try the Directive. For that matter, don't forget that not everyone loves novas. Some folks hate us for being what we are. Total strangers hate us enough to kill us, or at least try.I am not saying its time to live your life in a bunker. Just be careful.I live the life I lead by choice, but I don't wish it on anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 Quote:Originally posted by Lemmy Chillmeister:Jeezus man! What is wrong with you!?.Hmmm ... I'm wanted for questioning in a number of capital cases?Quote:"Learn to hide?".Yes, Lemmy, learn to hide. Preferably, in plain sight.Quote:Why?.Allows you to date, or go clubbing, without being mobbed, among other things. Hiding is a universally useful skill.Quote:Is he some spy? Is he some superguy with a cape that's gotta keep his girlfriend from figuring out he's SuperDude? Is he some paranoid freak convinced the world is out to get him?.Don't think so; She isn't really his girlfriend ... yet; I certainly hope not, but ya never know what leaks into the brain.Quote:Or is that you?.Yes; No girlfriend, but I'm hopeful; I really couldn't judge. Self-Analysis is inherently flawed.Quote:I wonder sometimes. Shit you talk about makes me think you're expecting a knife in the ribs any minute..Knife? Nah. A San Paolo sized blast ... yes, but I could just be nuts.Quote:Calm down. Relax. Have a frigging life for a second. Not some amped up adventure.You think I don't have a life? Sorry to hear it. Maybe if you got off your ass and release your next disc, I would have something to live for. Thanks for caring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 28, 2003 Author Share Posted May 28, 2003 O.OAnd I thought I'd have to watch two novas to see a flame war in person. The heat here is wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmy Chillmeister Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 This ain't flaming Saky. I didn't call him a motherfucker. Not even once.Honest, it just blows me away is all. I don't get why life has got to be so damned difficult with some people. Half the shit we deal with in our lives is shit only we see. Cody is a sweet kid and a tough one at that (I'm gonna let Stiggy go ape all over my skinny ass. Bet I'll be crying like a baby in about six seconds.) I just don't want to see him get a whole earful of paranoia without hearing the other side.That's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 28, 2003 Share Posted May 28, 2003 E. there is no flaming war here.Lemmy's got a valid point. Life is best lived at full throttle. No problem there.Besides, I'm a spook. I think like one and act the part. It's certainly not for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 29, 2003 Author Share Posted May 29, 2003 Hey, people call me a Mahou Shoujo, yet I don't walk around with a wand and a talking cat... >.<I don't think you're a spook. You're quiet and secretive, but I think of that as just a VERY deep thinker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 I adore fullfilling fantasies and desires. There is nothing like changing their whole world, becoming the center of their existance, and showing them how much fun life can be if you are not afraid to live it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 30, 2003 Author Share Posted May 30, 2003 But Bastian,Is what you're giving something tangible that changes things for the better? Or are you just offering a fantasy of empty adulation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Do you put a price tag on a good time, Little Sister? How much is happiness worth? What would you give for one night of absolute, unconditional love? What is it worth to you to experience the unknown?Nothing yet made lasts forever. Yes, I am more concerned with the intangibles than the mundane. I think one night at a rave is worth a deadend job or a parent's dark look.I would rather love and know poverty and sadness than be souless, but rich.I would live life for every moment and share what little I have with friends, lovers, and fellow travellers."Is what you're giving something tangible that changes things for the better?"They are better for knowing such delights exist in the world and for one night, if not longer, they were apart of that."Or are you just offering a fantasy of empty adulation?" They are not diminished by knowing us, my sister. We are their future, their fantasy, their desires made flesh. As we were once them, they would become us. Share that with them. Love them, cherish them, and show them what awaits us all.We did not make their lives empty. If they feel that way, it is not something we have taken, but something they have failed to find in themselves. That hope and wonder exists in us. Take that to them. Open their eyes to our promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted May 31, 2003 Author Share Posted May 31, 2003 Fantasy?Bastian, you're saying that indulging a human's fantasy is a good thing?That's like saying "Hey, Tapeworm, come on in! My intestine is nice and cozy!"Sorry. But encouraging idolotry of Novas is like trying to make the Human race need us. Like some sort of addiction.Trust me, I know. Before I erupted, I was Otaku no Novajin. I used to go ga-ga trying to be like Kou or Naginata of Nippontai... Never got the look right on either of them...I grew out of that phase. Strangely enough I could be considered a mirror of the Idoru crazes that spread around this mudball like wildfire.There was my "Lovely Nova Senshi Endeavor" phase I had after all...Perhaps I'm parodying myself? I'll never know.Perhaps we're all programs inside a simulation, being played by bored twenty-somethings on a saturday afternoon...*spine shiver* Perish the thought.Yes, I sort of draw the fan's attention. If I can lead by example instead of sucking off of them like a leech, then I guess I've done something constructive.And... I do have to admit... I am cute, that I am.As for the whole costume thing, shoot, why can't you have some fun once in a while. There has to be some aspect of your personality, or some wild once-in-a-lifetime thing you'd want to do.I have my quirks and foibles.So what if my "costumes" look like designs used for an anime production. I don't care. It's me. It's a representation of the hopes and dreams we abandon as we get older. If I can encourage a Human... just one... to dream and believe in the impossible... Without thinking about Novas...bah... who am I kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Davis Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 There is point and counter points to the idea of dreams. I like to say this. Be resonable, demane the impossable.To say novas are the problem or the anwser is taking a short cut. They do not cause the problems we have nor do they fix them. I see novas as part of a larger puzzle. I will get into to what sort of part and kind of puzzle in good time.I think a good thing to ask is this. Are we limted more by trying to do something prefect, or by doing anything else? Or maybe does logic bind us into do what other did before us, or does it let use achive greater hight based on what other have done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastian Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 Quote:Bastian, you're saying that indulging a human's fantasy is a good thing? To a degree that you are comfortable with, yes.Quote:That's like saying "Hey, Tapeworm, come on in! My intestine is nice and cozy!"If you chose to take and give nothing back, it is within your power. You must live your destiny. Not theirs, and not someone elses.Quote:Sorry. But encouraging idolotry of Novas is like trying to make the Human race need us. Like some sort of addiction.Or, little sister, we can be angels, muses, leaders, guides, and teachers. Each one of us must decide. Some of my brothers and sisters chose to be none of these. Wether they be killers, human transcendent, or something of their own creation, they are still my family ... and yours.Quote:Trust me, I know. Before I erupted, I was Otaku no Novajin. I used to go ga-ga trying to be like Kou or Naginata of Nippontai... Never got the look right on either of them...Did someone make you do this Otaku thing, or did you chose it as a means of reaching your own identity?I am happy that we are atleast talking to one another.Sandy, we are novas. Why can't we take the world with us on our quests for perfection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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